William VanderWolk

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Professor of Modern Languages, Associate Dean for Faculty Development

Spring 2012

  • Introduction to the Study and Criticism of Modern French Literature (FR 210)
  • Independent Study and Honors in French (FR 402)
Phone 725-3526
Title Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Professor of Modern Languages
Department Romance Languages
2nd Title Associate Dean for Faculty Development
2nd Department DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Work Location 208 Sills Hall
E-Mail wvanderw@bowdoin.edu
William VanderWolk: Bowdoin College: French - Romance Languages

Education

A.B. North Carolina
A.M. Middlebury
Ph.D. North Carolina

Teaching Interests

  • 19th and 20th Century French Novel
  • 19th and 20th Century French History
  • French Theater
  • French Cinema

Areas of Research

Victor Hugo in Exile: from Historical Representations to Utopians VisionsIntersections of French history and fiction, and their relation to memory (19th and 20th centuries)

Books Published

"Victor Hugo in Exile: From Historical Representations to Utopian Vistas." Bucknell University Press, 2006.

Flaubert Remembers: Memory and the Creative Experience (1990)

Rewriting the Past: Memory, History and Narration in the Novels of Patrick Modiano (1997)

Co-Editor, Paradigms of Memory: The Occupation and Other Hi/stories in the Novels of Patrick Modiano (1998)